Nelson Mandela

A lovely and touching Google Doodle to celebrate what would be his 96th birthday.

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

As an inspiration, perfect. As a Celebrity Historical, too soon.

So you meet your parallel universe self...

And they are so much cooler than you...

... happens to the star of You Me & Her thirty times.

That has to give a person issues.

Votes for women was only the beginning

Emmeline Pankhurst celebrated with Google Doodle on the, er, 156th anniversary of her birth. The Suffrage movement was a sea-change in politics here, with plenty of drama and action. And altering history so it failed... well, that change probably would not last much past the Great War, but changing the balance of equality could really mess with social history for the century since.

Meryl Streep is to portray Mrs. Pankhurst on film soon, but for Doctor Who, perhaps go for the Up The Women version played by Sandi Toksvig in an an enormous hat.

A hint of things to come?

If true, spoilers... for the new title sequence.

According to Bleeding Cool, the leaked scripts include a credit that the titles are based on an original idea by Billy Hanshaw.

Which is one of those great CGI artist fans who made a title sequence and put it online.

So we have a Doctor who wrote and drew for fanzines in his teens, and a title sequence based on fan art.

Nice.

"Life... returns."

TRAILER!

"It's not always fun. It's not always safe..."

The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors meet their new companions in this preview from the new Titan Comics series.

How do your characters meet?

There is no America...

An artist imagines an America that never quite United its States.

A really thorough example, up to and including coinage. If your time travellers find a five franc note from the Republic of Louisiana in their change, they might realise that something has gone a bit wrong.

The man whose sculpts in light

Who is the projector? An alien diplomat as the artist suggests? A holograph-using entertainer, as the costume might imply? And is that an Alliance city from the Verse, or a future human colony of the 50th Century?

I'm confused...

Japanese Doctor Who.

Compare Indian Doctor Who.

50 Years Of Doc Who

A video showing suitable-ish activities by the suggested American Doctors from this list.

I still prefer some of mine. Harrumph. (Especially Terry O’Quinn as Nine.)

But it’s nice work. And Gene Wilder certainly does wear some suitable hats.